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Written shortly after the close of World War II, Escaping Extermination tells the poignant story of war, survival, and rebirth for a young, already acclaimed, Jewish Hungarian concert pianist, Agi Jambor.

This fifth volume of the C-SPAN Archives research focuses on the Trump presidency in the first term. Chapters address his moral language, his rhetoric on climate change, and African American support forTrump. Other chapters study congressional influence on immigration policy, nonverbal cues in congressional speeches, and congressional debates.

Este libro intenta mostrar la representacin textual de las islas Galpagos desde su descubrimiento hasta nuestros das. El argumento principal sugiere que la descripcin de este espacio crucial para la modernidad, dada la retrica de los escritores de viajes y ficcin, transforma el rea insular para concebir formas alternativas del proyecto de construccin nacional en Amrica Latina. Como resultado de las empresas coloniales, excursiones cientficas, crnicas periodsticas o expediciones, la escritura de viaje de las Galpagos condiciona la formacin del estado y su imaginario nacional. Esto ocurre por el capital simblico que posee archipilago y por el deseo de los intelectuales latinoamericanos de pertenecer a un territorio cosmopolita.El espacio insular funciona como un significante vaco donde los viajeros pueden comunicar su propio significado al narrar las experiencias de sus viajes. Este fenmeno crea una divisin conceptual y poltica entre la identidad de las islas y la nacin ecuatoriana. Dichas ambigedades narrativas crearon una ruptura que condujo a variaciones fundamentales en la forma en que los habitantes locales y entidades extranjeras interpretan las Galpagos hoy en da, ya que su literatura refleja una tensin particular de cara a las tendencias migratorias en las islas, as como los intereses globales que prevalecen en la apropiacin del espacio. This book, written in Spanish, takes a literary and cultural studies model to explain the textual representation of the Galpagos Islands since their discovery until present day. The main argument suggests that the depiction of this crucial space for modernity in Western thought, given the rhetoric of travel and fiction writers, transforms the insular area with the intention of conceiving disparate forms of political displacement. Specifically, these depictions show several conflicts that arose from the seeking of identity in Ecuador during the nation-building project that took place at the time. As a result of colonial enterprises (scientific excursions, exile, tourism, journalistic pieces, expeditions, etc.), travel writings of the Galpagos condition the formation of the state and its national imagery because of the extreme symbolic capital of the archipelago and the desire of Latin American intellectuals to belong to a cosmopolitan territory.

Jan Hus was a late medieval Czech university master and popular preacher who was condemned at the Council of Constance and burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415. Looking for Hus's significance in his own time, this treatment tells a story of a late medieval intellectual who generated conflict and eventually brought execution upon himself.

Recognises that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media. They cover the period from biblical times to today.

A collection of essays that continues Steven Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. Topics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation and its challenges; immigrant memoirs; and Ilan Stavans, a prominent translingual author and scholar.

Depicts a profound, intergenerational struggle between a powerful, politically engaged mother, Rose, and her spiritually inclined poet and writer daughter, Kim. Framing this collision are two other generations: Rose's mother from the shtetl, and Kim's daughter.

Assessing events 80 years after the violent anti-Jewish pogrom of 1938, contributors to this volume offer new cutting-edge scholarship on the event and its repercussions. Contributors include scholars from the United States, Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom who represent a wide variety of disciplines.

Explores ways in which libraries can reach new levels of service, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost by collaborating in acquisitions. In consortial acquisitions, a number of libraries work together, usually in an existing library consortia, to leverage size to support acquisitions in each individual library.

Examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent US-led invasion. Through an analysis of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening ""Afghanistan"" has become a conduit for understanding our shared post-9/11 condition.

In 1948, the world-renowned book designer Bruce Rogers wrote a brief text that documented and illustrated his creation of the Centaur typeface several decades earlier: The Centaur Types. The book was privately printed by Rogers himself under the name of his design studio, October House. This limited edition of the book was transferred to the Purdue University Libraries at the time of his death along with his other papers and books. Over the years remaining stock of the original private printing has found its home in the Special Collections of the Libraries, and although known as something of a collector's item by those who are aware of the few copies in circulation, it is here available to the general market for the first time in both paperback and digital versions.The Centaur Types is a fascinating book for several reasons: in the designer's own words, we learn of the evolution of the typeface and of his interest in the art and craft of creating type; it demonstrates different and comparable typefaces, and gives examples of Centaur from six to seventy-two point; and it stands as a fitting example of fine bookmaking from one of the master book designers of the twentieth century.

Reanimates John Dewey's Experience and Education for first-time readers and anyone who teaches the text or is interested in appreciating Dewey's continuing significance by focusing on Dewey's thinking on preparation. Jeff Frank asks readers to wonder: How much of what we justify as preparation in education is actually necessary?

Animal abuse has been an acknowledged problem and scientific research provided evidence that the maltreatment of animals often overlaps with violence toward people. This book presents wisdom about the relationship between the maltreatment of animals and violence directed toward other human beings.

Succinctly outlines how best to develop, implement, run, and evaluate animal-assisted intervention (AAI) programs. Drawing on extensive professional experiences and research from more than fifteen years, the authors discuss both best practices and best reasons for establishing AAI programs.

Details a determined effort, in the midst of war, to bring essential veterinary services to an agrarian society that depends day in and day out on the well-being and productivity of its animals, but which, because of decades of war and the disintegration of civil society, had no reliable access to even the most basic animal health care.

Regardant les questions de tmoignage, de confession, detraumatisme, de sexualit et de violence dans les A uvres (semi-)autobiographiques,ce livre explore la co-construction d'identits personnelles et collectives pardes femmes crivains l're des mdias et de l'autoreprsentation. unepoque o la littrature franaise est souvent accuse d'tre gocentrique ettrop narcissique, Mercds Baillargeon avance que l'autofiction des femmes at reue avec controverse depuis le tournant du millnaire parce qu'elleperturbe les ides reues propos des identits nationale, de genre et de race,et parce qu'elle questionne la distinction entre fiction et autobiographie. Eneffet, ces crivaines se distinguent du reste de la production franaiseactuelle, car elles cultivent une relation particulirement tumultueuse avecleur public, cause de la nature trs personnelle, mais galement politique deleurs textes semi-autobiographiques et cause de leurs performances comme personnalit publique dans les mdias. On y examine donc simultanment lafaon dont les mdias stigmatisent ces crivaines ainsi que la manire dont cesdernires manipulent la culture mdiatique comme une extension de leur A uvrelittraire. Ce livre analyse ainsi simultanment les implications textuelles etsociopolitiques qui sous-tendent la (d)construction du sujet autofictionnel,et en particulier la faon dont ces crivains se redfinissent constamment travers la performance rendue possible par les mdias et la technologie. Deplus, ce travail soulve des questions importantes par rapport la relationcomplexe qu'entretiennent les mdias avec les femmes crivains, en particuliercelles qui discutent ouvertement de traumatisme, de sexualit et de violence,et qui remettent galement en question la distinction entre ralit et fiction. Cet ouvrage contribue une meilleure comprhension des rapports de pouvoir misen jeu dans l'autofiction, tant au niveau de la production que de la rceptiondes A uvres. Privilgiant l'autofiction comme phnomne principalement franais,cet ouvrage s'intresse la valeur politique de ce genre semi-autobiographiquepar-del sa mort annonce avec la disparition de la littrature engage del'aprs-guerre et des avant-gardes des annes 50-60, dans le contexte franaiset francophone actuel, travers par une crise des identits, lemulticulturalisme et une redfinition du nationalisme travers l'criture.The Personal Is Political: Media, Aesthetics and Politics in the Autofiction of Christine Angot, Chlo Delaume and Nelly ArcanLooking at questions of testimony, confession, trauma,sexuality, and violence in (semi-) autobiographical works, this book explores the co-construction of personal and collectiveidentities by women writers in the age of self-disclosure and mass media. In a time when literature is accused of being self-centeredand overly narcissistic, women's autofictionin France since the turn of the millennium has been received with controversybecause it disrupts readily accepted ideas about personal andnational identities, gender and race, and fiction versus autobiography. Through the study of polemical writersChristine Angot, Chlo Delaume, and Nelly Arcan, Mercds Baillargeon contendsthat, by recounting personal stories of trauma and sexuality, and thus opposing themselves in opposition to social convention, and by refusing to dispel doubtsregarding the fictional or factual nature of their texts, autofiction resists and helps redefine categories of literary genreand gender identity. This book analyzes concurrently the textual andsociopolitical implications that underlie the (de)construction of the autofictional subject, and particularlyhow these writers constantly redefine themselves through performance andself-fashioning made possible by media and technology. Moreover, this workraises important questions relating to the media's complicated relationshipwith women writers, especially those who discuss themes of trauma, sexuality,and violence, and who also question the distinction between fact and fiction. Proposing a new understanding of autofictionas a form of littrature engage, this work contributes to a broader understanding of the French publishingestablishment and of the literary field as a cultural institution, as well asnew insight on shifting notions of identity, the Self, and nationalism intoday's ever-changing and multicultural French context.

Explores how Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain's colonial losses, Pardo Bazan generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation.

Explores the human-animal relationship through the narratives of eleven people living with HIV and their animal companions. The narratives, based on a series of interviews with HIV-positive individuals and their animal companions in Australia, span the entirety of the HIV epidemic.

Tells the coming-of-age story of a young Jewish girl chased in Europe during World War II. Like a great adventure story, the book describes the childhood and adolescence of a Viennese girl growing up against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the religious persecution of Jews throughout Europe.

Focuses on research developments, models, and practical applications of human-animal connection and animal-assisted intervention for diverse populations who have experienced trauma. Physiological and psychological trauma are explored across three broad and interconnected domains.

Provides a comprehensive synthesis of the political, cultural, social, and economic life of Yugoslavia, from its nineteenth-century South Slavic origins to the demise of the multinational state in the 1990s. Marie-Janine Calic looks at the complex history of Yugoslavia, emphasizing major social, economic, and intellectual changes and the transition to modern industrialized mass society.

Combining history of science and a history ofuniversities with the new imperial history, Universitiesin Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyses the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire.

Adopting an empirical and systematic approach, this interdisciplinary study of medieval Persian Sufi tradition and Attr (1145-1221) opens up a new space of comparison for reading and understanding medieval Persian and European literatures. The book invites us on an intellectual journey that reveals exciting intersections that redefine the hierarchies and terms of comparison.

The aim of this collection of essays is to stress the cultural aspects of the Jewish experience of coming to, and living in, the Golden State. The contributors explore how the Jews who settled in California helped shape the state's culture and were, in turn, molded by cultural influences that were uniquely Californian.

Examines the complex relationship between Jews and the United States. Jews have been instrumental in shaping American culture and Jewish culture and religion have likewise been profoundly recast in the United States, especially in the period following World War II.

A history of animals throughout the ages. The author explains how animals have played a vital role in humankind's evolutionary course, aiming to enhance the reader's perception of history, the human species, and the sentient creatures with whom we share the planet.

Examines the practice of philanthropy in modern Spain. Through detailed studies of popular music, collective readings, dramas, working-class manuals, and fiction, Vialette reveals how depictions of urban philanthropic activities can inform our understanding of interactions in the economic, cultural, religious,and educational spheres, class power dynamics, and gender roles in urban Spanish society.

The C-SPAN Archives, located adjacent to Purdue University, is the home of the online C-SPAN Video Library. This annual volume presents interdisciplinary research utilizing tools of the C-SPAN Video Library. Each volume highlights scholarship and comprises experts and emerging voices in political science, journalism, psychology, computer science, communication, and other disciplines.